From: Thomas Krichel <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 05:06:44 +0000 Stevan Harnad writes > Shame on SSRN. Why? I am certainly looking forward to SSRN becoming as undynamic as Mendeley after an Elsevier takeover. > I don't know about Arxiv (needless centralization and its concentrated > expenses are always vulnerabe to faux-benign take-overs) but what's sure is > that the distributed network of Green institutional repositories > worldwide is not for sale, and that is their strength... RePEc can not be bought either. I created it before institutional repositories came along. It is based on the same principles as institutional repositories. -- Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel